Christianity started out in the Middle East (Israel), but now it’s in danger of extinction in the region. The Chaldean and Assyrian community of Iraq has been decimated. During the Iraq war, the US did nothing to protect them. We stood by as their churches were bombed and didn’t give them refuge. It was a black mark on my nation and one that gets me angry and part of the reason I regret supporting the war.
In Lebanon, the Shia, who are descended from Iraqi migrants, have taken over from the native Maronite (Phoenician) Christian population. There are more Lebanese Christians outside of that nation than inside. This saddens me as I am 1/4 biologically Lebanese via Dominican Republic. In Egypt the Copts, who are descended from the original Egyptians, are being persecuted and killed. No one seems to care or even discuss this ethnic cleaning in the Middle East.
Perhaps the situation in Egypt will resolve itself peacefully. Or perhaps we’ll see a long stretch of public unrest before the nation finally stumbles its way into a new form of stable government. But there’s one easy prediction to make: Whatever happens, Egypt’s Coptic Christians are going to be hurt, unless the United States makes a major diplomatic effort to help them.
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Of course, Egypt’s Christians are hardly alone in their suffering. Here’s a headline from 2010: “Catholic Bishop Stabbed to Death in Turkey.” And here’s another: “Islamist hard-liners in Indonesia target Christians.” And another: “Iraqi Christians mourn after church siege kills 58.” The Christmas season saw 48 killed in Muslim attacks in Nigeria.On Christmas Day, Iran opened its campaign against conversions by arresting dozens of evangelicals. Bombs left on the doorsteps of Christian homes in Iraq killed two and injured 14 on Dec. 30.
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Unfortunately, in the years since, America foreign policy has been little concerned with religious persecution. George W. Bush, for example, refused to insist on a non-Islamic constitution for Iraq. And Barack Obama has systematically watered down U.S. diplomacy: Where we once demanded “freedom of religion,” a public liberty, we now speak only of “freedom of worship,” a lesser and private right.
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This American abdication has produced only more oppression — and it’s accelerating at a horrifying rate. Nearly every day since Christmas, Christians have been murderously attacked for the simple fact of being Christians.
Read it all: Who will defend Mideast Christians?
How can America, which is 80% Christian, abandon its coreligionists? That is because America’s elites are anti-Christian. The leaders of this nation in both political parties are Islamophiles and have this admiration for Arabs. That is why Catholics, Southern Baptists and Evangelicals are regularly mocked in popular culture while Islam is praised and glorified. Clearly there is a disconnect between the elite’s perception of America’s interest and the true interests of the public.
The Tranzis and Wilsonians have a strangle hold on our foreign policy establishment. When Jacksonian or American national interest based foreign policy is proposed, the establishment silences the new ideas with cries of isolationism. This is done to intimidate those that see the error in our failed post Cold War bi-partisan foreign policy.
The fact that America doesn’t speak out on Christian persecution yet we back Muslims time and time again is a black mark on this nation. This is what happens when you don’t have an army to defend your interest.
